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HGTV calls off show starring twins who hate gays, Muslims, divorce, and public schools

HGTV abruptly called off a new reality show featuring twin brothers who have organized prayer rallies against LGBT and reproductive rights and compared same-sex marriage to Nazi Germany.

"Flip It Forward," which was scheduled to premier in October, was supposed to feature David and Jason Benham as they helped families buy, repair, and sell real estate.

The twins will "leverage their good-natured sibling rivalry to help families find a fixer-upper and transform it into the dream home they never thought they could afford," the network said in a press release announcing nine new series for next season.

But the cable network, which is owned by the E.W. Scripps Company, announced it had dropped plans for the show less two hours after Raw Story called seeking comment about the twins and their political activism.

"HGTV has decided not to move forward with the Benham Brothers' series," the network announced Wednesday afternoon on its Facebook page.

David Benham led a prayer rally, Charlotte 7:14, organized with his twin brother outside the 2012 Democratic National Convention to protest "abortion on demand," "no-fault divorce," "pornography and perversion," "adultery," and "demonic ideologies" taught at public schools and universities.

He also told Mefferd he worked to pass North Carolina's Amendment One, which bans same-sex marriage and civil unions.

"When Amendment One passed I realized the only three counties in North Carolina that actually voted against the amendment were Charlotte, Raleigh and Asheville, our three cities," he told Mefferd. "So we had all the rural areas and all the suburban areas but we lost all the cities. So I felt like, OK, it's time that we have a citywide church service of repentance and that's the reason that we decided to do it right in the heart of Charlotte the night before the DNC."

David Benham serves on the board of the anti-LGBT Coalition of Conscience and has referred to Muslims as "the enemy attacking" America.

"The difference between Islam and Christianity: Islam takes life and enslaves it," he said. "Christianity lays its life down and sets you free."

The brothers are the sons of Flip Benham, leader of the abortion-clinic protest group Operation Save America, which split from the militant anti-abortion group Operation Rescue in the late 1990s.

The elder Benham baptized Norma McCorvey - the plaintiff in the landmark Roe v. Wade decision - and protested outside mosques while shouting "Jesus hates Muslims" and blamed the Democratic Party for promoting a "culture of death" that caused the mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado.

Flip Benham was convicted in 2011 of stalking a Charlotte, N.C., abortion provider and sentenced to 18 months probation.

"If evil is being accepted and appreciated at the national level, aggressive Christian men must lead the charge against it," David Benham wrote. "In the late 1940s England realized this truth with Neville Chamberlain's Policy of Appeasement and the Nazi regime. Chamberlain thought he could somehow ‘appease' the fuehrer, yet Winston Churchill aggressively stood against this policy and proclaimed that they must kill Hitler and destroy the regime in its entirety. It wasn't long before Chamberlain's ‘politically correct' policy fell flat on its face, and Churchill - the more aggressive man - took the reins and joined America in defeating the beast."

David Benham also suggested in the Christian Post that support for marriage equality was the result of psychological issues.

"For the men on the other side of this vote, I'll say a couple of things: You'll never find the love of a father in the arms of another man," he wrote. "The emotional hurt that you've experienced can only be healed through a life-giving relationship with the very one that created you."

These two are entitled to believe all the crap they want to ingest. They are allowed to form rallies, pray and be as ugly and nasty as they wish. As long as they do it legally and otherwise. No moral code needed outside of the one they have trumpet up in their souls.

They only need to look in the mirror to see where the real issues stem from. People like these two, however, only see their egos and how right and great and powerful they are when they look in those mirrors. Reality distorted.

If they had tried to show any of this on the show, I could see issues there. If not, if their outside 'intersts' played no part in the show, meh.

However, I can see why they would pull it. Bad for business to have such good and caring Christians out there showing their true colors.

I thought the same thing. All I could think, was please don't let it be the Property Brothers. I really like that show. Oh well.

Quoting tiffyhamm: Whew, i thought this was gonna be about the other twins on 'property brothers'. Hgtv didnt know this about the twins before announcing their show to airin october? Had they already started filming?

You know, with all the anti discrimination laws we have on the books, I'm surprised political/religious discrimination isn't among them. Which is not to say that I think it should be, I think businesses should be able to hire/fire for any reason...

Also, why didn't hgtv vet these guys if political activism was a concern of theirs?

Quoting tiffyhamm: Whew, i thought this was gonna be about the other twins on 'property brothers'.
Hgtv didnt know this about the twins before announcing their show to airin october? Had they already started filming?

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